Adolescent Self-Portrait

Select and complete one of the following assignments:

Option 1: Adolescent Self-Portrait Paper
Option 2: Adolescent Self-Portrait Presentation

Option 1: Adolescent Self-Portrait Paper

Reflect on your adolescence or the adolescence of someone you knew.
Address the following in your reflection:

• Identify specific areas of concern you, or the person you knew, faced.
• Relate these concerns to adolescence in general.
• Examine the impact of physical changes and perceptions of such changes.

Discuss the results of this reflection with your Learning Team.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which your team describes the biological, psychological, and social development aspects of adolescence.
Address the following in your assignment:

• Describe what it feels like to be an adolescent.
• Identify specific changes that tend to be the most striking and have the greatest effect on personality.
• Explain how these changes relate to factual material reported in the text.
• Describe any differences between males and females.
• Identify the issues the group agrees and disagrees on and why.

Include a minimum of two peer-reviewed resources.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Option 2: Adolescent Self-Portrait Presentation

Reflect on your adolescence or the adolescence of someone you knew.
Address the following in your reflection:

• Identify specific areas of concern you, or the person you knew, faced.
• Relate these concerns to adolescence in general.
• Examine the impact of physical changes and perceptions of such changes.

Discuss the results of this reflection with your Learning Team.
Create a 12- to 15- slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which your Learning Team describes the biological, psychological, and social development of adolescence.
Address the following